Environmental and Civil Engineer, has many years of professional environmental and engineering experience in a variety of managerial and technical capacities. Provides business/industrial consulting on environmental strategies, regulatory requirements, and permitting. His fields of expertise include: overall use of resources as they affect the environment; water, wastewater, storm water and flood control; hazardous waste and risk management issues; solid waste management, waste minimization; air and water quality, pollution control; site development, infrastructure; arbitration of construction and other contract disputes; and organizational, managerial and acquisition issues.
He is a qualified expert and has presented testimony as to findings in courts of law.
Academic Background
- Ph.D.; The Johns Hopkins University; Sanitary Engineering and Water Resources, 1965
- B.E.S.; The Johns Hopkins University; Civil Engineering 1955
Professional Experience
- Environmental and Civil Engineer consultant, RTI Group, LLC, Annapolis, MD, 2006-present
- Consulting Environmental and Civil Engineer; President, private company, 1991-present
- President/Executive Vice President, EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., 1987-1991
- Partner, Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, Consulting Engineers, 1978-1987
- Individual Consulting Environmental and Civil Engineer, 1974-1978
- Director of Public Works, Baltimore City, MD, water, wastewater, storm water, solid waste, highways, public buildings, Board of Estimates, Planning Commission, Architectural Commission, 1969-1974
- Deputy Director of Public Works, Baltimore City, MD, 1968
- Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1967-1968
- White House Fellow, Assistant to Secretary of Interior, Washington, DC, 1966-1967
- Research Associate, Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, DC, 1966
- Research Associate, Environmental Engineering Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1965-1966
- Various consulting and teaching activities, 1961-1966
- Research Assistant, Sanitary Engineering and Water Resources, Johns Hopkins University, 1961-1965
- Senior Civil Engineer, Civil Engineer, Assistant Civil Engineer, Junior Civil Engineer, Bureau of Water Supply, Baltimore City, MD 1955, 1958-1961
- Sanitary and Industrial Hygiene Engineer, U.S. Air Force, 1955-1958
Professional and Scientific Societies
- Registered Professional Engineer, Maryland; 1963
- American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow, Past President, MD Section
- American Academy of Environmental Engineers, Diplomate
- American Water Works Association, Past Trustee, Chesapeake Section
- Engineering Society of Baltimore, Past President
- Water Environment Federation
- Tau Beta Pi
- Formerly AAAS Fellow, NSPE, ACEC, APWA, Society of Sigma Xi
Activities
- Johns Hopkins University, Trustee Emeritus, 2005-present
- Director, International Center for Sustainable Development, 2002-present
- Meadows HOA, Board of Directors, 2001-present
- W.H.C. Whiting School of Engineering National Advisory Council, Johns Hopkins University, 1991-present
- Director, Daft-McCune-Walker, Inc., 1998-2005
- Maryland Geological Survey Commission, 1990-2005
- Johns Hopkins University, Board of Trustees, 1980-2005
- T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds, Independent Director (Chairman, 2002-2005), 1979-2005
- Governor’s Task Force on Water Supply Infrastructure, Chairman, 2000
- Johns Hopkins Parking Corporation, Trustee, 1997-2001
- Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund, Trustee, 1996-2001
- Baltimore Country Club, President, 1995-1997
- Baltimore Regional Environmental Forum Member, 1992-1996
- Urban Non-Point Source Pollution Task Force Chairman, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, 1990-1993
- Biomedical Engineering Advisory Council of The Johns Hopkins University, Chairman, 1989-1994
- Board of Consultants, Baltimore City Pulaski Incinerator Expansion, 1985
- Dome Corporation, Inc., Director, 1984-1986
- President of the Johns Hopkins Associates, 1984-1986
- Johns Hopkins Endowment Fund, Inc., Trustee, 1982-1986
- Johns Hopkins University Annual fund, National Chairman, 1981-1984
- Center Club, Board of Governors, 1978-1984
- Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, President, 1978-1980
- National League of Cities – U.S. Conf. of Mayors, Solid Waste Task Force, 1973-1974
- Chesapeake Research Consortium, Board of Trustees, 1972-1974
- Baltimore Industrial Development Corporation, Board of Directors, 1972-1974
- State of Maryland, Department of Natural Resources, Advisory Board, 1971-1973
- Metropolitan Area Council, Commission on Water, Wastewater & Solid Waste, Chairman, 1970-1973
- URS Company, San Mateo, California, Project Review Panel, 1970-1972
- Baltimore Friendship Airport Authority, 1970-1972
- President’s Science Advisory Committee, Ad Hoc Urban Study Group, 1969-1972
- President’s Air Quality Advisory Board, HEW, 1968-1971